04-02-2025, 06:13 PM
Usher Unveiled: Poe and the Metaphysic of Gnosticism
Barton Levi St. Armand
Brown University
"...it is [Robert] Fludd’s work on alchemy that was his chief contribution to seventeenth-century thought; and it is the alchemical work, even though not mentioned by the narrator of “Usher,” rather than fortune-telling through palmistry, that has the greatest relevance to the fate of Roderick Usher. Like Fludd himself, Usher “absolutely refused to separate the natural from the supernatural”."
https://www.eapoe.org/pstudies/ps1970/p1972101.htm
Barton Levi St. Armand
Brown University
"...it is [Robert] Fludd’s work on alchemy that was his chief contribution to seventeenth-century thought; and it is the alchemical work, even though not mentioned by the narrator of “Usher,” rather than fortune-telling through palmistry, that has the greatest relevance to the fate of Roderick Usher. Like Fludd himself, Usher “absolutely refused to separate the natural from the supernatural”."
https://www.eapoe.org/pstudies/ps1970/p1972101.htm